Improvement in vegetable-boilers



0. BRITAIN. VEGETABLE EOILEE.

310,413,087. Patented June 14, 1864.

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PATENT OFFICE.

OLARISSA BRITAIN, on sr. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT lN VEGETABLE-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 13,087, dated June 14, 1864;

To alt whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, ULARISSA BRITAIN, of St. Joseph, county of Berrien, and State. of Michigan, have invented anew and Improved Vegetable-Boiler; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in 'which- Figurel represents a vertical sectional view of my boiler arranged within a kettle. Fig. 2 is a section through the boiler and removable base. Figs. 3 and 4 are exterior views of my improved boiler. n

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

. The object of my invention is to construct a boiler or kettle in such manner and to provide it with such means as will render it very usert'ul in the several operations of boiling, mashing, and drying potatoes, and other vegetables, and of keeping the same warm upon a stove without liability of burning, as will be hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

I have represented my boiler in Fig. 1 applied within a common kettle, which fits into the stovehol'es. on top of a stove, and which may be provided with an escape-pipe in its cover, leading into the smoke-pipe of the stove, for conducting oft the steam from the boiler. The boiler A is constructed with a cover, b, bail c, and a perforated annular flange, d, which latter projects below the bottom 0 a sufficient distance toform a support for the boiler when arranged within the kettle D and when itisplaced upon a stove. The perforations through the annular flange (1 allow of the free circulation of water beneath the boiler, as shown in Fig. 1, and also admit of the circulation of air beneath the boiler when it is put directly upon the top of a stove to keep the articles contained in it warm after they have been cooked in kettle D. This circulation of air beneath the boiler A will prevent it from being injured and its contents burned by the heat of the stove. This flange 01 serves also another purpose. In the opera.

tion of smashing potatoes, or other vegeta bles, it is necessary that the thin sheet-metal bottom e should have a firm and solid base upon which it can rest, and for this purposeI employ a. block, 0, Fig. 2, which is prepared so as to fit snugly within the space surrounded. by the flange d, and to form a supportfor'jthe entire surface of bottom e. This base-block ,is made somewhat thicker than the width of the flange d, so asto project below the same, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. By this means the entire' boiler is supported upon the blockjG, in-

stead of upon the table or bench on which the block rests. The two' holes g gin the bottom of block 0 arefor the purpose ofreceiving the fingers to enable the block to be removed from the boiler to allow the latter to be put upon a stove. The side of the boiler A is perforated at f f, to allow the water in kettle D to enter it during the operation of boiling, and also to allow of the draining of the vegetables of water after boiling. These perforations are closed by means of 'tlie slid-v ing gate h. (Shown in Figs- 1, 2, and 4..)

Having thus described inyinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A vegetable-boiler constructed with a perforated flange, d. surrot'inding its bottom edge and openings ff in .its side, provided with a closing gate. h, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination of annular flange d and detachable base-block C with the vegetableboiler, constructed and operating substantially as herein described.

Witness myhand in matter of my application for a patent for an improvedvegetable boiler. I

GLARISSA BRITAIN. 

